Is Jesus the highest conceptualization of light in your mind, or not? I'm giving you a free pass to talk about other religions if you need to.
And suppose that Jesus is - how important is it to be pure light when it seems pretty obvious that truth and balance can be found even in darkness, when tempered with light?
Light and darkness are often used to mean good and evil. If that’s what you’re referring to.... humans have split nature in them to varying degrees. That is easy observation for anyone, better observation in observing and examining oneself. Constantly in and out of states of doing good things and then turning around and doing bad things and vice versa.
Regarding the mind, it can have the perfect balance or equilibrium of light and dark. It can think as dark as it would like to, but not ‘be’ the dark or perform the ‘dark’ acts. It would be like knowing and being able to think like darkness, in order to understand the darkness better, and be able to see through and spot it. Even better if one knows themselves and is made aware of their own darkness and former darknesses once ignorant to. This would be the light being seen(made aware) and understood while in darkness.
With that said, I do know that one can be almost ‘pure’ light in nature and character while also having a balanced mind and dark sense of humor, or being able to think darkly.
But then there would be the troubles of mistaking one for the other. It would be too easy for one of the opposite... someone enlightened but having a dark nature and character. They would easily be able to trick and con another by appealing to someone else’s light/goodness while having vile intent. Present themselves as of light and say all of the right and wise fluffy sounding things outwardly just to coerce. So they would essentially be able to think as light as they want, present themselves as light as they want to while having a dark nature and character. Ulterior motives.
Light can mean a lot of others things to. Such as lightening up, laughing a lot, the removal of chains and burdens and fears, and guilts, and regrets and terrible memory reels that play over and over which are heavy... the opposite of light. So anything that is heavy, whether abstract and/or physical would be detrimental to being lighter. That’s at least what the ‘cross’ represents to me. Something heavy and burdening, chains we carry on our backs/minds. And then the following of a path to break free from that. A lot happening at the place of the skull, inside of us between the temples.
Light can also refer to like a lamp or spark being lit inside and gradually expanding, opening up more and more gates inside of awareness. Or genetic switches being turned on and opened up. However one would wish to use terminology in their own words. And it wouldn’t matter if someone called it the Christ or the Bodhi light, or the spaghetti monster. . what would matter is the character and nature that transpires with it.
This is all useless knowledge of, one will only understand the more they experience/come to know.